NATION based on a novel by Terry Pratchett, adapted by Mark Ravenhill Buy Tickets   Review   Photos

Genre	Drama
Previews from	11 Nov 2009
Opens	24 Nov 2009
Booking to	28 Mar 2010
Closes	28 Mar 2010
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Performers	Gary Carr (Mau), Emily Taaffe (Daphne), David Ajala (Milo), Gaye Brown (Grandmother), Paul Chahidi (Cox), Lorna Gayle (Marisgala), Michael Mears (Foxlip), Al Nedjari (Polegrave), Bhasker Patel (Mau's Father), Nicholas Rowe (Father), Sirine Saba (Cahle), Craig Stein (Pilu), David Sterne (Captain Roberts), Jason Thorpe (Milton), Ewart James Walters (Ataba), Elaine Claxton (Ensemble), Adrian Decosta (Ensemble), Mike Denman (Ensemble), Nancy Wei George (Ensemble), Howard Gossington (Ensemble), Tony Hasnath (Ensemble), Rob Hastie (Ensemble), Amy Loughton (Ensemble), Michelle Lukes (Ensemble), Nick Malinowksi (Ensemble), Itxaso Moreno (Ensemble), Gurpreet Singh (Ensemble)
Director	Melly Still
Design	Melly Still & Mark Friend
Lighting	Paul Anderson
Choreography
Costume	Dinah Collin
Sound	Paul Arditti
Producer	National Theatre
Synopsis	A parallel world, 1860. Two teenagers thrown together by a tsunami that has destroyed Mau's village and left Daphne shipwrecked on his South Pacific island, thousands of miles from home. One wears next to nothing, the other a long white dress; neither speaks the other's language; somehow they must learn to survive. As starving refugees gather, Daphne delivers a baby, milks a pig, brews beer and does battle with a mutineer. Mau fights cannibal Raiders, discovers the world is round and questions the reality of his tribe's fiercely patriarchal gods. Together they come of age, overseen by a foul-mouthed parrot, as they discard old doctrine to forge a new Nation.
B/O Price	£
Length	2hrs 30mins
Other Info	projections by Jon Driscoll, music by Adrian Sutton
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